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Zola Mumford
MLIS, 2009
In June 2014, Zola was hired by North Seattle College as a tenure-track reference librarian. She works as a liaison to the Art, Humanities, International Programs, ESL and Basic & Transitional Studies divisions.
Earlier in 2014, Zola joined a fascinating group of presenters discussing Afrofuturism at the Northwest African American Museum and curated film programs about the Black presence in science fiction, fantasy and speculative fiction at both the Experience Music Project and the Langston Hughes African American Film Festival. Zola has also worked as a curator at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute since 2003, and has researched and published HistoryLink.org essays about Seattle's Washington Hall, the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute, and artist Norie Sato.
Blynne Olivieri Parker
MLIS, 2009
In 2025, Blynne was named Dean of Ingram Library at the University of West Georgia, after a national search. Blynne had been employed at the University of West Georgia since 2012. In 2019, she was awarded the Faculty of the Year award. This is the highest honor that the university awards annually to one member of the professoriate for recognition of outstanding achievements.
Kristi Palmer
MSIM, 2009
Kristi recently moved to Portland, OR, and is actively seeking a position in business (systems) analysis.
Cindy (Bedi) Ralph
MLIS, 2009
Cindy works for the provincial government of British Columbia as a library consultant with the Libraries and Literacy branch of the British Columbia Ministry of Education.
Subramaniam Ramasubramanian
MSIM, 2009
As of late 2022, Subramaniam Ramasubramanian is a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) student at the University of Melbourne's School of Computing and Information Systems.
His Ph.D. aims to reduce leakage of sensitive digital assets such as trade secrets, blueprints, etc., that underpin the innovation process in organizations caused by the nation-state and non-state actors' cyberattacks.
Organizations are increasingly investing in developing new products and/or services into the marketplace. Organizations use formal methodologies or innovation processes for developing and commercializing new products and/or services. Organizations use digital technologies during the innovation process to perform analytical searching behaviors on sensitive digital assets. However, the advanced persistent threat actor cyberattacks target these organizations during the innovation process to steal these sensitive digital assets for commercial gains to organizational competitors.
Cybersecurity management approaches preventing, detecting, and responding to advanced persistent threat actor cyber-attack incidents using formal, informal, and technical controls. These controls are deficient in reducing the leakage of sensitive knowledge assets. This is because organizations lack guidance on managing cybersecurity data as controls to prevent, detect, and respond to advanced persistent threat actor cyber-attack incidents during the innovation process.
His research follows systematic planning and execution with a design science research methodology to advance knowledge for cybersecurity management practitioners and theorists. His research study aims to guide cybersecurity practitioners to designing a cybersecurity management approach in an organization to reduce leakage of sensitive digital assets caused due to advanced persistent threat actor cyber-attack during the innovation life-cycle.
Subramaniam's interests are to lead projects and programs relating to cybersecurity software and information technology (IT) services. His interest includes leading teams following agile principles and methodologies to planning and executing security software and IT services. Subramaniam has experience in leading cross-functional engineering, business, and operation teams in Microsoft Corporation, Seattle, and Symantec Corporation, in India, in delivering core cybersecurity technologies for Symantec's consumer and enterprise products and IT services for Microsoft's human resources business.
Subramaniam pursued his Masters of Science in Information Management from the University of Washington's Information School, graduating in 2009. Before obtaining an MS degree, Subramaniam pursued a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Kongu Engineering College, Anna University in India, graduating in 2005.
Jennifer Rees
Informatics, 2009
Jennifer is working for Agfa Healthcare, a global leader in health-care IT solutions, as a workflow architect. Her work focuses on combining multiple, decentralized medical imaging systems into a single, converged platform.
Linnea Shieh
MLIS, 2009
After nine years at Google as a data analyst, Linnea left in February 2019. She has taken on a new position in the library world as Engineering Librarian for Data and Collections at Stanford University, her undergrad alma mater.
Gina Strack
MLIS, 2009
Gina was honored with the 2022 CIMA Service Award from the Conference of Inter-Mountain Archivists (CIMA), an association of archivist, conservators, historians, and archival professionals from Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Idaho, and New Mexico. The CIMA Service Award is given to an individual who has made significant contributions in recent years to the CIMA organization, to the archival institutions of the intermountain region, and to the archival profession. The award is given in appreciation for service, leadership, and support of the region’s archival community.
Deborah Turner
PhD, 2009
In 2014, Deborah was awarded an Early Career Development research grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), part of the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. The grant supports her project “The Oral Present, Urban Library Services, and the Underserved,” which directly builds on her doctoral work. Her research sites include the Cleveland Public Library, the Free Library of Philadelphia, and the Seattle Public Library.
Lia Vella
MLIS, 2009
Lia works for the National Park Service's Library Information Management program, as its first Metadata Coordinator. She's training field personnel at hundreds of park libraries to enter holdings and other information into NPS's enterprise-level catalog as well as doing marketing and outreach to NPS and other federal and public stakeholders.